WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.180 Tech news can help you understand and adapt to important technological, economic, 00:00:05.180 --> 00:00:08.320 and sociocultural shifts that affect all of us. 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.440 But why keep up with it at all? 00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:12.720 It's a good question. 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:18.540 Hell, if I know, Nintendo has updated their user agreements 00:00:18.540 --> 00:00:21.740 to let gamers know they might break your switch 00:00:21.740 --> 00:00:25.120 if you screw around with it. Because as much as they love to sue people, 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:28.320 it's like their favorite thing other than releasing the same game a million times, 00:00:28.360 --> 00:00:31.960 it's just faster to remotely disable people's consoles. 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:36.240 And along with it, their ability to legally play Nintendo's games. 00:00:37.400 --> 00:00:41.680 Hold on. As first spotted by Steven Toteo at gamefile, 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:44.720 the old Nintendo account agreement for US accounts 00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:48.480 forbade a long list of jailbreak-y actions 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:52.280 like copying, modifying, and decompiling Nintendo services. 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:57.960 But the new agreement goes into more detail and notes that failing to comply with these restrictions 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:04.200 may cause Nintendo to render your account and or Nintendo device permanently unusable 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:10.040 in whole or in part. I don't know what that last part is, like they might break only your joy-con sticks, 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:15.280 make them worse than they already are. The UK version of the agreement is a bit softer, 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:20.080 saying non-compliance may result in the console becoming unusable. 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:25.440 My appen might not stop. Nintendo also updated their privacy policy 00:01:25.440 --> 00:01:31.200 in the US and UK to say they might monitor and record your video and audio interactions 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:34.840 with other users. So just make sure you get all the swearing out 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:38.280 of your system before you sit down to play online, okay? 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:45.120 NVIDIA is reportedly once again refusing to give tech reviewers official drivers for the RTX 5060 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.240 until the card launches on May 19th. 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:52.440 Igor's lab first made this claim, but it was corroborated by Hardware Unboxed 00:01:52.440 --> 00:01:58.500 and Andrea Schilling of Hardware Lux, who pointed out NVIDIA's plan sucks extra hard 00:01:58.500 --> 00:02:01.680 because May 19th is the first day of Computex 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:06.040 and everybody's gonna be in Taiwan, possibly enjoying delicious soup dumplings 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:11.160 and bubble tea, which is not important right now. What's important is we're looking at another launch day 00:02:11.160 --> 00:02:15.140 filled potentially with videos of short sandaled people 00:02:15.140 --> 00:02:19.520 complaining about not being able to publish a review. Thanks, NVIDIA. 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:24.360 Honestly, the Radeon RX9060XT, listings of which leaked recently, 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:29.360 revealing both eight gig and 16 gig variants, can't come soon enough, please. 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:34.440 Let line is review something, anything. Apple has filed a motion to stay that ruling 00:02:34.440 --> 00:02:39.440 from last week, forcing the tech giant to allow external payment options on iOS, 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:45.640 even though Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers explicitly said she would not grant a stay 00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:48.920 and that she is generally sick of Apple's shenanigans. 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:54.280 That's my paraphrasing. But you see, Apple had no choice but to try something 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:57.280 because if they don't collect all the commissions they can, 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:01.920 even on purchases made outside of the app store, they could lose hundreds of millions, 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:07.480 even billions of dollars, which I believe was the whole idea, but I could be wrong. 00:03:07.480 --> 00:03:11.000 Obviously Epic Games thinks Apple's motion is BS. 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:15.840 The company just submitted the Fortnite iOS app to Apple for review once again. 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.920 And again, I feel like it won't be approved, 00:03:18.920 --> 00:03:25.280 but I appreciate Tim Sweeney's spirit. Meanwhile, Apple SVP Eddie Q made a spirited argument 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:30.200 in the Google search antitrust remedies trial, asserting that Google should still be allowed 00:03:30.200 --> 00:03:34.560 to pay Apple 20 billion a year to be Safari's default search engine 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.080 because search won't even be relevant soon anyway. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:42.680 I mean, people are using it less because they're using AI to search for stuff instead. 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:47.200 Now Google didn't love the sound of that, so they posted a short statement to say, 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:50.480 ah, well, hey, just hold on now. 00:03:50.480 --> 00:03:53.480 We're still seeing overall query growth in search. 00:03:53.480 --> 00:03:58.720 So I mean, Google's still a big deal. And then Apple's like, no, it's not. 00:03:58.720 --> 00:04:03.680 And then Google's like, yes, it is. Anyway, Eddie even went so far as to say, 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:07.200 you may not even need an iPhone by 2035 00:04:07.200 --> 00:04:11.040 because AI is changing how people use the web so much. 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:15.720 In fact, the changes are so big, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, 00:04:15.760 --> 00:04:18.880 they're killing the internet's entire business model. 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:22.080 I mean, the tides are changing. Winds are shifting, your honor. 00:04:22.080 --> 00:04:25.600 There are probably a lot of things we should be worrying about instead of Google 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.160 paying Apple 20 billion dollars, so probably just keep letting them do that, okay? 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:32.800 I mean, why not? I know why tech news is useful. 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:40.240 No idea what the quick bits are for. An AI generated video of a man killed 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:45.440 in a road rage incident in Arizona was played during the killer's trial 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:49.800 and accepted by the judge as a victim impact statement. 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:55.360 The video was produced by the victim's sister and features the man saying he believes in forgiveness 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:59.640 despite his family asking the judge to deliver the maximum sentence. 00:04:59.640 --> 00:05:04.880 After hearing the testimony, the judge said he didn't hear the victim 00:05:04.880 --> 00:05:10.760 asking for the maximum sentence, probably because that wasn't actually the victim. 00:05:10.760 --> 00:05:16.240 It was a fake person. Does everyone realize that? And then the judge handed out the max sentence anyway. 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.800 Okay, so not sure what we learned from any of this. 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:25.940 Huawei showed off its first laptops running a desktop version of its Harmony OS operating system. 00:05:25.940 --> 00:05:30.280 The Chinese tech giant first started developing Harmony OS as an Android based alternative 00:05:30.280 --> 00:05:36.040 to reduce their reliance on Google and now they're trying to reduce dependence on Microsoft too 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:41.320 because of the US-China trade war and also probably because they're sick of the constant 00:05:41.320 --> 00:05:46.400 nagging to upgrade to Windows 11. In case you missed it, there's a new Pope in town 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:50.240 and yeah, he's a gamer, kind of. 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:53.440 Robert Pravos, aka Pope Leo XIV 00:05:53.440 --> 00:05:58.400 is the first American Pope and the first one confirmed to play video games, 00:05:58.400 --> 00:06:04.000 specifically Wordle and Words with Friends, according to his biological gamer, Bros. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.920 He's also the first Pope that can be properly stocked on social media. 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:12.000 Evidence has already been discovered of him arguing with his relatives on Facebook. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:16.880 He's just like us. And a viral TikTok trend called the Chromebook Challenge 00:06:16.880 --> 00:06:20.280 in which kids stick objects into the USB ports 00:06:20.280 --> 00:06:24.000 of their school-issued Chromebooks to elicit a bit of magic smoke 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.480 has unsurprisingly led to fires and evacuations 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:31.200 at schools in multiple states. As one TikTok video points out, 00:06:31.200 --> 00:06:37.280 blowing up your Chromebook may lead to a situation where it ain't even a Chromebook anymore. 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:41.600 Important lessons learned. Searching Chromebook Challenge on TikTok 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:46.160 now leads to a TikTok page warning against participating in such challenges, 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:50.120 which they needed to do because the fire challenge was already a thing 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:53.600 and that involved kids pouring flammable liquid on themselves 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:58.480 and then lighting that liquid on fire. What is the challenge there? 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:03.160 To survive? Thankfully, kids have already pivoted to finding new and creative ways 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:08.840 to screw with their Chromebook settings, making the laptop hard to use the old-fashioned way. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:13.080 Maybe the kids are all right. Maybe the kids are all right. 00:07:13.080 --> 00:07:16.360 But I won't be all right unless you come back on Monday for more tech news. 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:19.960 I'll just be sitting here worried sick that you're doing something less useful, 00:07:19.960 --> 00:07:22.960 like touching grass or other things that are outside. 00:07:22.960 --> 00:07:24.320 Your hands might get dirty.